Russian invasion of Ukraine

Wouldn't surprise me if western intelligence services had cracked encrypted Russian transponder codes and provided the data to Ukraine to enable them to make their aircraft look like friendlies to Russian air defence. Either that or the Russians were too arrogant or stupid to use their encrypted modes.
Not the sharpest tools in the box, so the Ukrainians probably just painted on a Z and were good to go. In the immortal words of Blackadder There hasn’t been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, king of all the Vikings ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.
 
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Wouldn't surprise me if western intelligence services had cracked encrypted Russian transponder codes and provided the data to Ukraine to enable them to make their aircraft look like friendlies to Russian air defence. Either that or the Russians were too arrogant or stupid to use their encrypted modes.

Good point that mate. I don’t know how all that works but seems feasible and wouldn’t surprise me either if that was the case.
 
Yep, the Russian military are like the emperor's new clothes.
It is certainly beginning to look very much like that. Couple with outright corrupt top brass and poorly trained and ill equiped conscripts it's been a lot of smoke and mirrors. The mirrors cracked and the smoke's blown away.
Dictators hey, who'd have 'em ?
 
Wouldn't surprise me if western intelligence services had cracked encrypted Russian transponder codes and provided the data to Ukraine to enable them to make their aircraft look like friendlies to Russian air defence. Either that or the Russians were too arrogant or stupid to use their encrypted modes.
They're probably using Nokia 4800s to guide the pilots in....
 

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